MIDDLE EAST: Sandstorm at Kilometer 101

"Kilometer 101," the United
Nations checkpoint along the Cairo-Suez road, stood once again at the
crossroads between peace and war in the Middle East.

There, in a cluster of sandswept tents guarded by blue-helmeted troops
of the U.N. Emergency Force, Israeli and Egyptian negotiators met once
more in an effort to work out the details of the Suez ceasefire.

Five of the six points in U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's
ceasefire package had already been achieved.

The Cairo-Suez road was open for transporting nonmilitary supplies to
the city of Suez; for evacuating the...